Enter the Drake

Standard UR (Izzet)

DrCheckmate

Instant (26)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Abrade
• 2x Censor
• 3x Disallow
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 4x Glimmer of Genius
• 3x Harnessed Lightning
• 2x Lightning Strike
• 1x Negate
• 2x Opt
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 4x Supreme Will

Land (24)

• 4x Aether Hub
• 1x Endless Sands
• 10x Island
• 5x Mountain
• 4x Spirebluff Canal

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Sweltering Suns

Creature (8)

• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 2x Cryptic Serpent
• 2x Enigma Drake
• 3x Torrential Gearhulk

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 2x Essence Scatter
• 2x Negate
• 1x Refuse / Cooperate
• 3x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Swindle

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 2x Sweltering Suns

Creature (1)

• 1x The Locust God

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crook of Condemnation

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Anticipate

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Updated with HOU cards

Main Deck

• Enigma Drake: This is our main win con along side the Torrential Gearhulks, people normally don't expect a flying */4, it also dodges fatal push and most removal bar the big ones
• Torrential Gearhulk: You know why it's here
• Supreme Will: For 2U, the ability to counter or Anticipate for 4 means that you can dig a single card deeper than Anticipate or counter a target spell
• Abrade: Useful spot removal, kills opponent's Gearhulks and other relevant artifacts
• Endless Sands: Useful for exiling Drakes and Torrential Gearhulks (also gets an extra ETB) out of the way of removal while still presenting some sort of board presence

Side

• Commit / Memory: Mainly played for the Commit ability to put something dangerous back into the deck
• Crook of Condemnation: To target exile embalm/eternalize creatures as well as thin out graveyard recursion decks
• The Locust God: Good combo with Pull from Tomorrow, Glimmer of Genius and anything that cycles, great for the slow game and doesn't die to removal easily with recursion, creates chump blockers and haste-y insects that can fly over a board
• Refuse / Cooperate: Refuse is used when the opponent taps out or casts large spells which can hit them for a large amount of damage, Cooperate can act like a hard counter when an opponent tries to counter something we do or it can be used to cast a better valued spell
• Sweltering Suns: Cycles and board clears low creatures, use Hour of Devastation to clear difficult ceatures

Updates to decklist

03/07:

M:

• -1 Part the Waterveil +1 Fateful Showdown

S:

• -1 Metallurgic Summonings +1 Baral's Expertise

11/07:

M:

• -1 Magma Spray +1 Refuse//Cooperate
• -1 Island +1 Endless Sands
• -1 Baral's Expertise +1 Crook of Condemnation

23/07:

M:

• -1 Island, -1 Mountain +2 Spirebluff Canal
• -1 Enigma Drake +1 The Locust God

05/08:

M:

• -4 Anticipate, +4 Supreme Will
• -1 The Locust God, +1 Enigma Drake
• -2 Pull from Tomorrow, +2 Abrade
• -1 Fateful Showdown, +1 Essence Scatter
• -1 Magma Spray, +1 Abrade
• -1 Mountain, +1 Wandering Fumarole

S:

• -1 Kefnet the Mindful, +1 The Locust God
• -2 Release the Gremlins, +2 Thing in the Ice
• -2 Harnessed Lightning, +1 Hour of Devastation, +1 Pull from Tomorrow

10/08:

M:

• -2 Island, -1 Mountain, +3 Wandering Fumarole

04/09:

M:

• -2 Magma Spray, +1 Harnessed Lightning, +1 Hour of Devastation
• -1 Essence Scatter, +1 Unsubstatiate

S:

• -1 Pull from Tomorrow, +1 Essence Scatter

Match results

- 5th place at HOU Games Day (got mana screwed both games to God Pharaoh U/W deck in the deciding round, was originally 3rd with 2-0 win in every match)- 1st place at FNM (6 people): 2-0 against RG pummler, 2-1 against Eldrazi Emerge, 2-0 against UR control mirror- 1st place at FNM (12 people): 1-1 draw against B/W life gain, 2-0 against Mardu midrange, 2-0 against Eldrazi Emerge, 1-0 against UR control mirror

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 12 - 6 Rares 25 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Insect 1/1 UR, Treasure
Folders	con type2